1.7 miles away
Heard Museum
A museum of American Indian art founded in 1929, known for its collaboration with Native artists and for a permanent exhibition on the American Indian boarding school era.
Phoenix Indian School
The Phoenix Indian School, or Phoenix Indian High School in its later years, was a Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated school in Encanto Village, in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. It served lower grades also from 1891 to 1935, and then served as a high school thereafter. It opened in 1891 and closed in 1990 on the orders of the federal government.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 53.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 41.1
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.4975, -112.0694
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Phoenix Indian School is a historic site near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 53.0 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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